Facial recognition to be used at Singapore airport

Image copyright Reuters Image caption The trial means there are fewer visible airport staff Singapore's Changi airport is testing a facial recognition system it hopes will speed passengers through the facility. It is expanding existing uses of the smart ID system and is looking into ways it can replace passport checks. Reuters reports however, that proposals to use cameras mounted on lamp posts that scan faces to ID passengers has raised privacy concerns. Airport officials have dismissed "big brother" worries. Last call One potentially welcome use of facial recognition could be to spot passengers who have missed the last boarding call for their flight. "We have lots of reports of lost passengers, so one possible use we can think of is, we need to detect and find people who are on the flight. Of course, with permission from the airlines," Steve Lee, Changi Airport Group's c...